Thanksgiving is in two days! Everyone is very excited for
all the food and festivities! Families thanksgiving traditions are all
different but similar at the same time. Many people like to watch the football
games and eat a lot of food. Some people like to go out hunting in the morning.
And some like to go shopping on Thanksgiving Day or very early black Friday morning.
I love the holidays because I always have so much fun spending time with my
family. My family from New Jersey comes up. Thanksgiving morning one of my
cousins and I go out hunting together. Then I go home and get ready to go to my
uncles in Cheektowaga. My dad’s side of the family is all there and it is
always a blast. Unfortunately, my mom has to work on thanksgiving this year
from 3 pm to 11 pm. I feel bad she won’t be able to spend the holiday with her
but my sister and I are meeting her when she gets out of work to go black Friday
shopping. Overall, spending time with my family is my favorite part of
Thanksgiving. All of the food is a close second.
One
thing I learned about Thanksgiving that is very interesting is that what we eat
as tradition on the holiday is not what the Pilgrims and the colonists ate. The
holiday has been altered very much than what it originally was. It was a 3 day
long celebration that took place in 1621. Mostly venison was consumed on
Thanksgiving, some wild turkey too. There was no pumpkin pie or cranberry
sauce. Also the date of Thanksgiving has been changed a lot by different presidents.
Not a lot of people know the facts about Thanksgiving, it is good to know what
we are celebrating!
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